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Meatless, for Reducing—Winter: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Dish of apple sauce

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Watercress and cottage cheese salad

Boiled onions

Bran biscuits (one)

Postum or Sanka

Dinner

Vegetable soup

Omelet

Mashed squash

String beans

Salad: Pear and cheese on lettuce

Apple

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Dish of stewed apples (unsweetened)

Coddled eggs (one)

Triscuit (one)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable bouillon

Bran muffins (one)

Baked winter squash

Lemon jello

Dinner

Cauliflower

Corn pudding

Salad: Lettuce, celery, tomato and olives, no dressing

Fruit cup

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WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Lunch

Poached egg on spinach

Celery

Sliced pineapple or orange

Dinner

Vegetable bouillon

Boiled cabbage and onions

Salad: Lettuce, beets and cooked carrots, cream cheese as dressing

Fruit cup or fruit gelatin

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Tomato soup

String beans

Fruit gelatin

Dinner

Cooked rutabaga with a small amount of butter

Beet greens or spinach

Salad: Lettuce and tomato (plain)

Jello

Glass of buttermilk

Breakfast

Sliced orange (no sugar))

Small dish of bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Spinach

String beans

Cup custard

Dinner

Egg omelet

Cauliflower

Peas

Salad: Lettuce, grated raw carrots and cooked string beans (plain)

Fruit cup

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit (no sugar)

Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Poached eggs (two)

Bran muffins (one)

Plain lettuce heart

Dinner

Vegetable bouillon

Carrots and peas

Mashed rutabaga

Salad: Lettuce and tomato, plain

Baked apple (unsweetened)

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Bran muffins (one)

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

IX

Dinner

Baked green pepper stuffed with boiled brown rice, minced onion and carrots (or mushrooms), sprinkled with grated cheese and paprika on top, served with egg sauce

Cauliflower and string beans

Celery

Olives

Cereal coffee jelly

Supper

A

Baked potatoes (one)

Peas

Celery

Cranberry sauce

Sliced orange

Bran muffins should contain as little flour as possible to act as binder. Flour is fattening, and so are bran muffins rich in flour. Shortening and fatty dressings should be reduced to the minimum while the person is losing weight.

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